Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Cindy, one of our volunteers, shared the following on our volunteer listserv (and she said it better than I could!): A Bookshare.org member is going to be featured this weekend on on TV on Extreme Makeover.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Why am I excited about this project?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Throughout the 15NTC, there will be volunteer opportunities to engage and share the community''s skills with Austin, TX area nonprofits. Skype, Google Hangout, listserv) Virtual opportunities can begin ahead of the conference If you''re a 15NTC attendee looking to volunteer while in Austin, you can sign up for an opportunity here.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

org on Climate Change and Building a Movement – "Social Media Coordinator, Joe Solomon took some time to explain what 350 really means, talk about transforming community inspiration into political power, and share a story about how his work with 350.org Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

M+R shares 6 Rules for Online Writing that just might shatter some old grammar rules. AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. If you''ve got some happenings and news of your own to share, let us know and we''ll feature it in an upcoming Member News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. right here.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We thought we’d share that with you. to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2) 2) Get a wiki. It’s easy and cheap, accessible from anywhere, and will help you define your work. (3)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization. Share how an organization similar to yours was able to strategically use technology to increase its impact. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) What about other senior management? How about your board members?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon. And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

So, here's a quick summary of good stuff that was shared on the N-TEN discuss list today about conference calls. Here's a few vendors mentioned on the listserv: Live Office Conference Call ReadyTalk Conference calls and web conferencing. I need to summarize and synthesize what I find valuable on my blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. are two organizations doing good work to make that happen.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Finally, on some objects we have some semi-complex sharing rules to make sure certain users can edit records even if they don't own them, and logging in as a user helps me make sure that everything is where it should be. Pay special attention to the free and discounted for nonprofits sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. To share the expertise of Easter Seals??? Share your knowledge, your passions and your personality in your posts by writing about what you know. Our goals are: ???

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. 4) Share an application with an organization in your sector. The idea is, the more we share applications, the more likely we will find really useful ones for our specific work. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. Recent advances in web development make data sharing much easier. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. Sharing the Experience. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I Recently, there was a thread about online donation tools and I shared Laura Quinn's Idealware report with a caveat that it was probably more useful for NGOS in the US. (Here's my response to her tagging me).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. I'd love to see some workflows shared too. James shares his reflections on testing the tool: I???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

So, I'm summarizing our distributed conversation, with the hope that some folks might add their , ask questions, or share observations. This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Webcast key panels to be shared online for those who cannot attend. Slideshare is the YouTube of the PowerPoint presentation for those who don't know it yet.) Set up an event wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

We have a mix of experience, from the early adoptors who can share their vast experience to those who are new.". Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. s reports on their experiences, so I wanted to briefly share mine. This experience has reminded me of the enormous value of sharing our stories. His post would be the perfect blog post. I have always appreciated other???s Some of you may have met CISA???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Flickr is a web application that allows anyone to share and organize photographs online. To get started using Flickr to share and search for photos, you'll need to register for an account. You'll be uploading, sharing, and searching for photos in no time. But not all. Flickr is fairly easy to use, the basics can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning. All about the Forums.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

This email type is sent with the usual goals of acquiring, recruiting, informing, or welcoming new subscribers to your organization’s email listserv. At Whole Whale, we love any chance to promote free resources and products to further aid in a person’s digital learning journey, and the best way we share this information is in a newsletter.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

I can communicate with new people who share an interest in my country. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. Why did you start vlogging? I think vlogging is an interesting way to express yourself and the right medium for my. It has changed my life in many ways. How did you learn vlogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

The post on Forrester also shares some of the control issues and concerns that a social media strategy will bring up and it looks like they are eating their own dog food. I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies.

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